The maps below present our projected proportions of children living in households where an adult has any of the so called ‘toxic trio’ factors present, or where multiple factors exist in the same household. These factors are:
These have been shown to put children at notably greater risk of immediate harm as well as having a detrimental impact on their later life outcomes.
Note: These figures are not actual data collected from each local area, but are instead projections from a national survey combined with additional predictive modelling. More detail on the methodology for generating these estimates is available in the accompanying technical report.
This approach makes several key assumptions that are difficult to test without further local data:
As such the results below provide only a useful first step in estimating local levels of these factors. They are in need of further validation from local surveys and administrative data that are not currently collected centrally.
The data underlying these maps can be downloaded from here
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Both maps contain (c) National Statistics data Crown copyright and database right 2018 and (c) OS data Crown copyright and database right 2018 used under the Open Government License